The 3rd Alternative: Solving Life's Most Difficult Problems -- Stephen R. Covey

<b>From the multimillion-copy bestselling author of <i>The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People</i>, hailed as the #1 Most Influential Business Book of the Twentieth Century, <i>The 3rd Alternative</i> introduces a breakthrough approach to conflict resolution and creative problem solving. </b> <p/>There are many methods of "conflict resolution," but most involve compromise, a low-level accommodation that stops the fight without breaking through to new and innovative results. <i>The 3rd Alternative</i> introduces a breakthrough approach to conflict resolution and creative problem solving, transcending traditional solutions to conflict by forging a path toward a third option. A third alternative moves beyond your way or my way to a higher and better way--one that allows both parties to emerge from debate or even heated conflict in a far better place than either had envisioned. With the third alternative, <i>nobody </i>has to give up anything, and <i>everyone </i>wins. <p/>Through key examples and stories from his work as a consultant, Covey demonstrates the power of 3rd Alternative thinking. His wide-ranging examples include a Canadian metropolitan police force that transformed a crime-plagued community; a judge who brought a quick, peaceful end to one of the biggest environmental lawsuits in American history without setting foot in a courtroom; the principal of a high school for children of migrant workers who raised their graduation rate from 30 percent to 90 percent; a handf